Published June 24, 2011
The Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department’s Summer Beach Volleyball League action continued this week with the second round of games on the beach at Dorchester Street on Monday. Pictured above, an unidentified player prepares for a spike during a league game on Monday evening.
Photo by Shawn Soper
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Published June 24, 2011
OCEAN CITY- The 31st Annual Ocean City Shark Tournament held last weekend is in the books, and with a renewed conservation effort including a partnership with renowned artist and conservationist Guy Harvey, the release division was the major focus of the event this year.
Just 40 boats participated in the 31st Annual Ocean City Shark Tournament last weekend out of the Ocean City Fishing Center, but there was no shortage of action. Just three makos were actually weighed at the scale over the...
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Published June 24, 2011
OCEAN CITY- The Delmarva Eastern Surfing Association (ESA) second contest of the summer season is set for tomorrow, Saturday, June 25, with generations of local surfers competing in a wide variety of age and skill categories.
The ESA local chapter features some of the East Coast’s premiere surfers competing in 28 divisions with age groups for body board, short board and long board. The age groups begin with the Menehunes, or young surfers under 12, and go up through the Grand Legends, or...
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Published June 24, 2011
OCEAN CITY- Hundreds of athletes from all over the country descended on the resort area last week for the 2011 Ocean City June Fitness Challenge, a weekend-long series of events that started with a 5-Mile Boardwalk Run on Saturday and concluded with the Assateague Assault Sprint Triathlon on Sunday.
Produced and organized be OC Tri-Running Sports, the same outfit that produces the Ocean City Half Marathon along with other significant fitness events throughout the year, the Ocean City June...
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Published June 24, 2011
OCEAN CITY- The Greene Turtle Lacrosse Club this week hosted the first of a summer-long series of drop-ins for area high school and college players each Wednesday evening at Northside Park that will continue through mid-August.
The girls’ lacrosse drop-in is open to all girls’ players entering 10th grade this fall through college. The drop-in will be held at Northside Park in Ocean City each Wednesday through August 11 from 6-8 p.m.
The drop-in will include practice drills, simulated...
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Published June 24, 2011
OCEAN CITY- Dozens of the top AAU basketball programs in the region along with a couple of teams from Denmark are descending on the resort this weekend for the 31st Annual Ocean City Basketball Classic that got underway this morning.
Since 1980, Berlin native and former Stephen Decatur High basketball star Lynn Smack has hosted the AAU tournament in the area dubbed “one of the greatest AAU tournaments on the east coast.” From modest roots in the inaugural year for the event in 1980,...
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Published June 24, 2011
BERLIN- Live racing returned to Ocean Downs, the historic racetrack turned casino on Route 589 in Berlin, last weekend after essentially the first missed season in six decades last year while the Maryland’s second slots venue was being constructed.
Maryland’s only active harness racing track opened its 40-day 2011 season this year after missing last summer for the first time in 61 years. Ocean Downs hosted a four dates of non-betting stakes races last year, the Maryland Fund and Sire...
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